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Labour world views wrench it off its axis

Alex Massie

Corbyn leads a cabal blinkered by old bias that skews its foreign policy

During the general election campaign last year, Tory strategists were appalled to discover that attacking Jeremy Corbyn for his dalliances with Irish republican terrorists had next to no impact at all. Young voters, in particular, just didn’t care that Corbyn had spent years chumming around with Irish republicans (as opposed to Irish nationalists). It was all a long time ago and, anyway, too complicated to be worth worrying about.

Besides, Corbyn said he was only interested in promoting “dialogue” and “peace” and, look, who could possibly look at this avuncular pensioner, never happier than when pottering about his allotment, and think: here’s a threat. It seemed too preposterous, too outlandish to be worth taking too seriously.